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| Poland continues to fight on two fronts |
| 2023-02-15 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Petr Akopov [RIA] Warsaw firmly holds the palm in terms of the number of absurd and provocative statements. In anticipation of the visit of Joe Biden, which will take place next week, the Polish leadership seems to be competing with each other. President Andrzej Duda, in an interview with Le Figaro, says that "if it is very urgent, in the coming weeks, we do not send military equipment to Ukraine, Putin can win." And we don't know where he will stop, the Pole continues, thereby hinting to the French and Germans that they should prepare to meet Russian tanks. Polish leaders have more than once and openly frightened Berlin of the Russian invasion - while not ceasing to accuse Germany of slowness and conciliation with the Russians, while presenting themselves as the saviors of Europe. But Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense Mariusz Blaszczak has now gone even further, essentially blaming Germany for plotting Russia's invasion of Ukraine. In a TV interview on Polish television, Blaszczak was asked if Poland and Germany were playing the same game in the Ukrainian direction. The Minister is not sure about this: “Could it be the other way around? Does Germany really want to support Ukraine, or, as they have done for years, they supported Putin, because there is no doubt that Germany has built Putin’s strength, that Germany has built the financial foundation, which allowed Putin to attack Ukraine. There is a change in German policy, we'll see how long it lasts. All this requires a certain amount of pressure on the Germans." So here it is - Germany helped Putin, thereby creating the conditions for an attack on Ukraine, and in general it is no less guilty than Russia. This "Polish logic" is not new - in the same way, the Polish leaders blamed Germany and the USSR for the fall of their state in 1939, Hitler and Stalin, and the second was a little less to blame for them than the first, and now it's the other way around, Russia and Germany are to blame for the fall of Ukraine. Putin has been Hitler for a long time, although Scholz is not yet Stalin, but let's see how they talk in Warsaw after the collapse of the Square. This scheme is simple - there are terrible Russians and Germans who are always trying to enslave their neighbors - the unfortunate proud Poles (now the Ukrainians play their role - with active Polish direction). The Germans were put in their place after 1945, but they still behave incorrectly, so Blaszczak says they need to be put under pressure, as is the case with the supply of weapons: "This requires pressure from Poland, from Ukraine and other countries of our part of Europe." And, of course, on the part of the United States - otherwise Germany could again "return to the policy of supporting Putin, which it has been pursuing for years." True, the question arises - how much pressure should be put on Germany? Is it enough just to scare with "Russian tanks near Berlin", as Prime Minister Morawiecki does, or is something stronger needed? Polish demands for reparations of 1.3 trillion euros for damage during the Second World War - is this enough to discourage the Germans from even thinking about relations with Russia? Or is it too small an amount (as the ruler of Poland, Kaczynski, has already said), and the bill needs to be doubled? And to demand more German lands - in addition to those that Stalin cut to Poland after the war? Polish madness and arrogance have no boundaries - including difficult to understand where one begins and the other ends. Once again in their history, the Polish elites are relying on distant allies to pressure and provoke their neighbors. Each time this bet turns out to be beaten, and the allies leave the Poles to their fate, but their own history does not teach the "proud gentlemen" anything. Unable to understand that those they considered allies were simply using them to their advantage. There is no doubt that the same will happen at the current turn of history. |
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